The Chalke Valley History Festival is the largest festival dedicated entirely to history in the UK.
Hotels near the Chalke Valley History Festival
The Compasses Inn
Tisbury - 4.8 miles away
Reached down rural lanes bordered by hedgerows, Ben Maschler’s contemporary country pub-with-rooms occupies a thatch-roofed 14th-century inn whose flagstone floors and ancient beams lend it much character.
Howard’s House
Salisbury - 6 miles away
This peaceful small hotel and popular restaurant in a romantic Jacobean former dower house, surrounded by country gardens, continues to delight readers.
Castleman
Blandford Forum - 7 miles away
Change is afoot at this former dower house, which opened as a hotel in 1996 under Barbara Garnsworthy, in an estate village of thatched limestone cottages amid the rolling chalk downs of Cranborne Chase.
The Beckford Arms
Tisbury - 7 miles away
With Beckford Phoenix ale on tap, ‘top-quality’ cooking, and bedrooms with Welsh blankets and seagrass floor covering, this sophisticated pub at the edge of the Fonthill Estate in the Nadder valley is the perfect synthesis of traditional and contemporary.
La Fleur de Lys
Shaftesbury - 9 miles away
The ‘outstanding’ food made from fresh local ingredients at this ‘wonderful restaurant-with-rooms’ on the edge of Shaftesbury’s historic town centre has presumably come a long way since that served when the building operated as a girls’ boarding house.
The Grosvenor Arms
Shaftesbury - 9 miles away
Traces of the 17th century survive in this coaching inn-turned-hotel, rebuilt in the early 1800s by Earl Grosvenor.
From £62.50 per night
The Fontmell
Shaftesbury - 9 miles away
The village stream runs between the dog-friendly bar and the bookshelf-lined restaurant of this stylishly updated roadside inn, in a peaceful rural setting between Shaftesbury and Blandford Forum.
Leena’s Guest House
Salisbury - 10 miles away
A 15-minute riverside stroll from the cathedral, ‘excellent, helpful hosts’ Gary and Edith Heikki Street provide good-value B&B accommodation in their ‘first-rate’ guest house.
Plumber Manor
Sturminster Newton - 16 miles away
Standing amid flower-filled gardens, with the Devilish stream skipping through, this dog-friendly, child-friendly Jacobean manor house is traditional with a capital T.
The Bell Inn
Brook - 17 miles away
Flagstone floors, old beams and open fires at this 18th-century coaching inn make fine bones for the smart tweeds and bright wall coverings of its updated country interior.
Burley Manor
Burley - 17 miles away
Overlooking a deer park, in an open New Forest landscape, this Victorian verderer’s manor house is today a restful hotel with a popular restaurant and a cosy duo of spa treatment rooms.
The Three Daggers
Westbury - 20 miles away
Red brick on the outside, country cool and craft-beery on the inside, this ‘impressive’ pub-with-rooms serves as a village hub – and then some.
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Hotels near the Chalke Valley History Festival
RNLI College
Poole - 20 miles away
Set up as a training centre for RNLI volunteers, this purpose-built structure overlooks Holes Bay in Poole Harbour. Alongside crew members, visitors can stay in comfortable, jauntily decorated bedrooms (each with a double bed, work desk, seating and stunning view of the harbour). Breakfast and bistro food is served in the light and cheerful Riggers restaurant facing the waterfront; the Slipway bar has drinks and nibbles. Tours of the facility (which include a wave tank and simulator) can be pre-arranged. Every £1 spent goes towards providing equipment, training, and support for those saving lives at sea.
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